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Islam and love

.:"Make things wholesome among them equitably, and be just. Surely God loves the just."One of the most important things about the Koran's use of the word love is that God's love is always for humans and to nothing else. In the translation of Sufi Path of Love, Rumi tells us that God is the source of all love. The question that is asked also, however, is God really love? God is love but he is also other attributes as well. He is also Mercy, Knowledge, Life, Power, and Will. He possesses all these things not just one. So even though He is Love, He does not let it exhaust his reality. Rumi also says that Love is desire and need. Yet God is beyond all need. In the Koran, it says that God said, "I desire to be known, so I created the world." Also, God's love for exhibiting the Hidden Treasure through the prophets and saints was the motivation in His creation of the universe. Everything that happens on Earth is because of the original Love. In a verse of the Koran, it says that God wants people to love him and that their love for him follows up upon his love for them. That quote is this:"O you who have faith, should any of you turn back on your religon, God will bring a people whom He loves and who love him, who are humble toward the faithful and disdainful toward the truth-concealers, who struggle in the path of God and fear not the blame of any blamer. That is God's bounty,- He gives it to whomsoever He will. He is All-embracing, All-knowing."What this verse says is that that loft is God's gift or prize to us. Everything in reality partakes in God's love so that would mean that all things are lovers. So that means everything has a need and desire for everything else and yearns for a union with everything. This quote proves this fact: "God's wisdom in His destiny and decree has made us lovers of one another. That fordainment has paired all parts of the world and set them in love with their mates. Each part of the world ...

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